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🇺🇸 America 250 Question of the Day
If you could sit down for one hour with ONE of America’s Founding Fathers, who would you choose?
🇺🇸 George Washington
✍️ Thomas Jefferson
⚡ Benjamin Franklin
📜 John Adams
💰 Alexander Hamilton
👤 Someone else?
Tell us who you’d choose and why! 👇
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Alexander Hamilton. I’d ask about the clandestine meeting he had with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison during which they agreed to move the U.S. Capitol to just outside of Virginia. Hamilton wanted the new country to assume the debt of all of the states in order to establish a treasury to obtain international credit. Jefferson and Madison pushed back because the southern states were prosperous and productive while the other states were straddled in debt. They questioned why they should fund the others’ debt. They proposed moving the U.S. Capitol to Virginia so that they can stay close to home to oversee their plantations. I’d want to know the gist of the conversation that led to the compromise. What exactly was the back-and-forth discussions? CLASSIC COMPROMISE! Our political leaders today have forgotten how to do that.